Relationship with our Consultants

The Consultants who treat patients at St Joseph’s Hospital do so having been granted Practicing Privileges and they practice their specialities in accordance with the hospital’s terms.

None of the consultants are employed by St Joseph’s Hospital since they are self-employed practitioners.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently issued an Order regulating the relationships between private hospitals and consultants who treat private patients or refer them for tests at the hospitals facilities (so-called “Referring Clinicians”). In accordance with this Order, hospitals and Referring Clinicians are prohibited from entering into any incentive schemes that are designed to encourage consultants to refer private patients to, or treat private patients at, the hospitals.

St Joseph’s Hospital does not operate any such schemes with Referring Clinicians.In addition, the CMA requires hospital operators to disclose certain information about arrangements they have with Referring Clinicians. These arrangements include: ownership interests in the operator; the provision of certain “high value” facilities to Referring Clinicians; the availability of “low value” basic amenities for Referring Clinicians; and any remuneration for services provided by Referring Clinicians to the hospital. This information applies specifically to consultants who are not hospital employees and who have the ability to refer privately insured or self-paying patients for treatment or tests at the hospital.

Set out below is information about the arrangements we have with our Referring Clinicians.

Ownership interests

St Joseph’s Hospital is owned in partnership with a number of its Referring Clinicians.

Attached below, are the names of Referring Clinicians and their respective ownership interests in St Joseph’s Hospital Ltd:

Title

First name

Surname

% ownership

Value of shares

Mr

Phillip

Alderman

0.85

£27,625.00

Dr

Nimal

Balaratnam

2.53

£82,225.00

Mr

Chris

Bates

0.42

£13,650.00

Dr

Sanapala

Bhanumurthy

0.21

£6,825.00

Dr

Nigel

Brown

0.21

£6,825.00

Dr

Philip

Campbell

0.64

£20,800.00

Mr

James

Cordell-Smith

0.79

£25,675.00

Mr

Aled

Evans

1.42

£46,150.00

Dr

Patrick

Flood-Page

0.85

£27,625.00

Dr

Victor

Francis

0.62

£20,150.00

Mr

Gordon

Gillespie

0.64

£20,800.00

Dr

Vivek

Goel

0.21

£6,825.00

Mrs

Leena

Gokhale

0.21

£6,825.00

Mrs

Rohini

Gonsalves

0.21

£6,825.00

Dr

Richard

Goodwin

0.85

£27,625.00

Dr

Ishan

Gunatunga

0.29

£9,425.00

Dr

Husni

Habboush

0.32

£ 10,400.00

Dr

Lloyd

Harding

0.68

£22,100.00

Mr

Kartik

Hariharan

4.57

£148,525.00

Mr

David

Johnson

0.64

£20,800.00

Mr

Greg

Jones

1.40

£45,500.00

Mr

Sujit

Kadambande

2.25

£73,125.00

Mr

Ash

Khurana

1.33

£43,225.00

Mr

Rohit

Kulkarni

22.71

£738,075.00

Mr

Mark

Lewis

1.27

£41,275.00

Mr

John

Lloyd

0.35

£11,375.00

Mr

Abraham

Manoj-Thomas

0.72

£ 23,400.00

Mr

Hemang

Mehta

1.03

£33,475.00

Mr

Yogesh

Nathdwarawala

1.42

£ 46,150.00

Mr

Huw

Pullen

0.79

£ 25,675.00

Mr

Syed

Raza

0.94

£30,550.00

Mr

David

Roberts

0.64

£20,800.00

Mr

Paul

Roberts

1.80

£ 58,500.00

Mr

Andrew

Rogers

2.18

£ 70,850.00

Dr

Sukhdev

Singh

0.37

£ 12,025.00

Mr

Brian

Stephenson

1.61

£ 52,325.00

Mr

Alun

Thomas

2.91

£ 94,575.00

Other remuneration

St Joseph’s does not reimburse in general for services that they provide to the hospital, such as membership of Advisory Boards in the areas of Infection Control and Governance.

Mr Rohit Kulkarni is a member of the Board of St Joseph’s Hospital Ltd for which he is entitled to draw a fee of £40,000 per annum.

Facilities

Below is a list of the facilities we make available to Referring Clinicians and the rates we charge for their use.

The following facilities are provided to Referring Clinicians at the rates set out below:

Referring Clinicians are able to book Consulting Rooms at a cost of £23 per hour

Referring Clinicians are supported by nursing staff when they use Consulting Rooms without charge

St Joseph’s Hospital does not supply secretarial services to Referring Clinicians, but the rate per hour charged for the use of Consulting Rooms includes an element to meet the cost of accommodating secretaries paid for by the Referring Clinicians

How to refer your patients to St Joseph’s

We value our strong relationships with GPs and other healthcare providers. On the right you will find useful information including our consultant directory, calendar of our monthly CPD evenings and our GP newsletters.

Exclusion Criteria

In addition to conducting monthly CPD sessions at St Joseph’s, our Consultants would be delighted to visit your practice and talk about conditions that are of interest to your team. We also invite GPs and other healthcare referrers to visit the hospital to view the facilities and meet the team. Please email gp@stjosephshospital.co.uk to arrange.